Re: VIOS DS4700 and a E4A

Pete Helgren wrote:

IBM i configured it as:

Device description . . . . . . . . : TAP01
Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *BASIC
Category of device . . . . . . . . : *TAP Device type . . . . . . . . . . . : 3580 Device model . . . . . . . . . . . : 004 Resource name . . . . . . . . . . : TAP01

It is an external SAS drive. Flipping it over, it has 3850 H4S/S4E as the model # on the sticker.

Works great and made the whole back up routine very simple (as it used to be on my other i's)

Pete

Kirk Goins wrote:

Pete Helgren wrote:

Are you privy to any info on if and when we will have native/direct access to tape from the Power6 Blades?

That feature was in the last VIOS release and it works like a champ. I am backing up direct to tape now. NO more virtual tape first.
VIOS level 2.1.1.10-FP21

Pete

About Darn Time!!! What dirve are you using?

Pete, found this a little later today in a redbook at

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247668.html?Open

4.6.1 Back up to physical tape drive in IBM i client partition
When System i partition that has Midrange Storage attached, it resides on the Power6
System i model. You can use the usual way of backup to the physical tape drive attached to
this partition. You may want to use one tape drive for the backup of multiple System i
partitions so that you can move the tape drive from one partition to another by Dynamic
Logical Partitioning (DLPAR).
Note that this type of backup is not possible when running IBM i client on Power6 Blade.